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RALPH DENNIS from 2006 Ralph Dennis Tommorrow night I'm going to run a piece by the writer Richard A. Moore on the subject of the most b...

Ed here: I was never a major Richard Brautigan fan. While I liked Trout Fishing and a good share of his pieces in Rolling Stone, there was a...

For what to me are obvious reasons I've never been a particular fan of the famous Jacques Barzun mystery list. I find his writing pedan...

Ed here: And I dom't care what anybody says-John Carter of Mars was a great movie. Absolutely true to Burroughs. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14...

Ed here: My friend Jack O'Connell sent me this link because he "suspected" I was a Route 66 guy. He's right. This was a dr...

The Urban Landscape of Marxist Noir Alan Wald larger image FROM CRIME TIME (Thanks to Terry Butler for the link) Professor Alan Wald tells...

SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2007 From Fred Blosser Ed, there was a fine essay by Manohla Dargis about Lee Marvin in "The New York Times" on Fr...

Ghosting I've commented before on the business of one writer ghosting another writer's book. Writer one gets sick; falls off the wag...

Ed here: Brian DePalma's adaptation of Stephen King's consummate teenage story was just about perfect. I hold out no hope for the re...

One of Margaret Millar's final novels is also perhaps her most brutal. Cleo Jasper is a beautif...

Ed here: Lee Goldberg is one of those few writers who've done it all--magazine writing, novels, short stories, tie-ins, books on writin...

Whoa! Let’s All Just Take A Deep Breath… May 15th, 2012 / Author: LibbyFischerHellmann Share I’m frustrated. A little angry. But most of al...

Link Wray: So Glad, So Proud by Kim Morgan Ed here: As usual I played the rube. A few years ago I posted a link to a movie commentary I thou...